The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-17
LAMAR AND CHISOLM.

The Responsibility of Mr.. for the
Assassination of Judge ChisoIm.
New York Tribune
No one whose memory of our politics
back ten years can have forgotten the massacre
of the Chisom family in kemper county. Miss
issippi, by a brutal Democratic mob. There Is
more pathetic and beautiful figure in history
than that of Cornelia Chisoim clasping her dy-
ing father in her arms. while the representa-
tiyes of Southern chlvalry riddled her fair body
with buckshot Father, daughter and son were
murdered in cold blood. without cause or pro-
vocation. because the father wanted TO be al
lowed to exercise his rights as citiZen-to
speak and to vote IS his conscience taught MIN.
II have been murdered" said he in his last
moments, because / am a Republican. and
would live q free man.
This murder was the outcome of determi-
nation on the part OF the white Democrats OF
Mississippi that the negroes should not have the
moral support and encouragement of any white
man in politics. Once deprived of this co-opera-
ton. the negroes inexperienced and tmid, could
easily be terrified into submission. The sequel
has proved tina. the calculation was correct
White men were to be persuaded or bullied into
be persuaded or bulle6. they were 70 be killed.
Hundreds of pages of testimony before Congress.
dripping with blood, prove that this is not
exaggerated statement. Who was the month
piece and leader of this movement in Miss;ss
ippil We will let the VicksOurg Herald, good
Democratic authority. answer:
.At Aberdeen, last Saturday. Colonel Lamar
made eloquent speech. better Democratic
speech We do not care to listen TO: and in manly
an ringing tones he declared that the contest
involved the supremacy of the unconqusred
and unconquerable Saxon race. We we're glad 10
hear this bold and manly ayowal. and It was
greeted with deafening plaudits We have
never seen men mere terribly in earnest. and
the Democratic white-line speech made to them
by Colonel Lamar aroused them to white heat"
Does somebody say: 30. but this a
peaceful movement Mr.. Lamar could not have
countsnanced any violence" Well, read this
from the same paper:
eff the killing OF anybody is necessary. re-
peat what We have heretofore said-let the poor
negro pass. and let the white scounGrels who
have fired his heart with evil passions be the
only sufferers"
These were the sentiments openly expressed
in the campaign in which Mr.. Lamar was the
Acknowledged leader. Can anyone imagine
in a campaign in which the leading
newspapers of his party advocated tie
murder of political opponentsl BIZ Lamar
spoke ia kemper county at a meeting at which
Judge Chisolm was mentioned as the man who
stood In the way of victory Professor T. s.
Cartwright spoke at DeKalb, within sight Of
Judge Chisolm's home, and said:
Gentiemen. II you ever expect to have peace
and harmony in your county you must get rid
of this man. L will not undertake to tell you
how to get rid of him-that you know as well as
l. but you must fet rid of him"
Then followed gesture initiative of hanging.
and the crowd laughed and cheered. These
were Mr.. Lamar's friends and supporters ten
years ago in Mississippi. These were the senti-
protested.
William E. Chandler now Senator, said Of
this the time:
..Such men as Lamar and Cartwright and
Money. more than the ignorant Southern white
trash of kemper county, are responsible for the
Chisolm tragedy. and the failure to punish the
murderers. to our everlasting national disgrace"
Every man knows this to be the truth Yet
it is now proposed to make the leader and
ciate ofthisred-handed crew judge of the Su-
preme Court of the United States.